This was the first Bollywood movie I have ever watched and has become one of my favorites. The film has english and hindi as its language, but the majority of the dialogues were in Hindi, and that is where the subtitles come in handy. The subtitle made it easier for me to understand the movie better.
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| 3 Idiots poster |
The film stars, Aamir Khan as Ranchhoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chhanchad/Phunsukh Wangdu,
Kareena Kapoor as Pia Sahasrabuddhe, R. Madhavan as Farhan Qureshi / Narrator, Sharman Joshi as Raju Rastogi, Boman Irani as Viru Sahasrabuddhe (ViruS), Omi Vaidya as Chatur Ramalingam (Silencer), Rahul Kumar as Manmohan "MM" aka Millimeter / Centimeter and Mona Singh as Mona Sahasrabuddhe.
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3 idiots revolves around the story of 3 engineering students who were roommates in the residence of Imperial College of Engineering. They are Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi and Ranchhoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chhanchad. Farhan studies engineering to pursue his father's wish but his real passion is in wildife photography. Raju Rastogi studies engineering to get his family out of poverty. Rancho studies simply because of his love and passion for machines.
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| The THREE Idiots Left to Right: Farhan, Rancho and Raju |
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| Chatur |
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| ViruS |
The story starts with Farhan on a plane getting a call from their college classmate, Chatur. Upon hearing news about Rancho, he fakes a heart attack which forces the plane to do an emergency landing. He then, fetches his friend Raju and they both went to their College. Upon their arrival they saw no sign of Rancho, only Chatur. Chatur called them for the judgement day for a bet he made with Rancho 10 years ago. The three went on a journey to find Rancho. The movie then shifts to a flashback from 10 years ago, when they were still in college. During their college, Rancho was then showed to be a man who loves learning. He believed that they should follow excellence, and success will chase them pants down. However, his ways seems to incur the wrath of the College President, Viru Sahastrabudhhe or popularly known as "ViruS". Chatur, ViruS's favorite students believes that mindlessly memorizing everything from a book over understanding will bring him to success. There was one instance that during class Rancho was asked to define the word 'Machine'. He gives a simple but concise definition, but the professor didn't accept his answer but instead applauded Chatur for giving the definition given by the book word for word. Rancho, still implying that he gave the same answer in a much simpler way was asked to get out of the room, on his way out, he forgot something and on the act of about to get what he left, he was asked as to why he still hasn't left. He answers in a very long and elaborate way, this confuses the professor and asks him to just get to the point. He then answers that he left his book. The professor asked why he didn't just say book in a simple manner. He answered that he tried to answer in a simple way a while ago, but that doesn't seem to work. The professor was left in shock. Ranju,who was initially annoyed by Rancho's ways, transfered to Chatur's room, but he just fared worse. To save his friend, Rancho decides to give him an example. He sabotages the speech that Chatur asked the librarian make for him by replacing the word "served" by "screwed". Chatur with his lack of understanding in Hindi, memorizes the speech which was for Teacher's Day and deliver's it infront of the whole school, the Minister of Education and ViruS. Chatur, became the laughing stock of everyone. Rancho then says to Ranju that, that is what cramming will do to him. Chatur got mad to Rancho for embarrassing him infront of the whole school and made a bet with him to see whoever comes more successful between them after 10 years, thus the present day commotion. Meanwhile, Raju's paralyzed father, suffers cardiac arrest and was then saved by Rancho and Pia(ViruS's daughter who is doing residency at the city hospital). This changes Raju's mind about Rancho and became close friends with him along with Farhan. The angry ViruS always try to break the three's friendship apart. The three of them always stick together, Rancho always get the top ranking while the other two, always get last, barely passing because of Farhan's passion in photography and Raju's cowardice. Things got worse four years later, when the three of them drunkenly break into ViruS's house for Ranchu to be able to profess his love for Pia, but Virus found out about their breaking in. The next day, Virus threatens Raju to rusticate him from the college unless he blames Rancho for the drunken incident. Raju, not wanting to betray his friend and family contemplates suicide and ends in a coma. After two months of extensive care, he got well and was able to attend a job interview which he passes. Simultaneously, during the interview, Farhan finally convinced his father that he will not be pursuing engineering anymore but will be pursuing his dreams of becoming a photographer. Virus got his beloved mustache shaved after he lost to a bet with Rancho, that if either one of Raju or Farhan, gets a job, he will shave his mustache. Not wanting to accept defeat, he plans on failing Raju in his final exam by making the test questions himself. Pia then informs Rancho about this and gives him a duplicate key to ViruS's office to steal the test questions. They were discovered and was asked to leave the school. Virus then asked Pia who gave Rancho the key to his office, she admits that she did and tells her father that she should've done the same for her brother so that he should still be with them. It is then found out that, Virus's son committed suicide for the pressure of not being able to pass the entrance exam for ICE three times. Pia blames her father, that if he didn't push her brother to be an engineer and just asked him what he wanted, he would still be alive. Pia also said that her brother didn't commit suicide for her father's pressure on him was the one that murdered him. Pia then leaves the house and heads to the hospital. A storm was ongoing, and as the three were about to leave the school, they saw that Pia's sister, Mona was about to give birth so they carried her to the recreation hall and placed her on a table tennis table. With the help Pia's instructions and Rancho's inventions(Virus Inverter and the Vacuum suction) they were able to deliver the baby. As Rancho was about to leave, Virus stopped him and gave him the space pen, which he notes that his director when he was college gave it to him and ask him to give it to a remarkable student if he finds one. The three were able to graduate with Rancho being the best student. Unbeknownst to them, the graduation day was the last time they will ever see him. Back to the present day, on their way to find Rancho, they discovered that Rancho's name wasn't really Rancho and that he only went to college so that the real Rancho will get an engineering degree. The real Rancho gave them their friend's address. On their way to their friend, the picked up Pia in the middle of her wedding. When they arrived to the school at which their friend was supposedly teaches, they meet Millimeter, who is now Centimeter. He then tells them where 'Rancho' was. Pia was the first to find him. They professed their love for each other and shared a kiss. Farhan and Raju followed, and jokingly punched and kicked Rancho. Chatur was the last, he was teasing Rancho that he stooped down from an engineer to a teacher. He then makes him sign a Declaration of Defeat which he signs using the pen Virus gave him. Upon seeing the pen, Chatur took the pen saying that the pen was for winners only. Then, Pia, Farhan and Raju asked if Rancho wasn't his real name, what was his name. He answered that his name was Phunsukh Wangdu. They were surprised since Phunsukh Wangdu was a scientist with over 400 patents and the Japanese were wooing and at the same time the person that Chatur was going to have a deal with. Phunsukh Wangdu, calls Chatur and tells him that their deal is off. Chatur asked why, and he said that he won't be able to sign since he took Wangdu's pen. Chatur was confused and Wangdu made it clear to him that he was the Rancho he knew. Upon realizing that he mocked his client, he apologizes and says that he wished that whatever was their personal issues be forgotten and proceed with the deal. The film ends with Chatur chasing after Wangdu/Rancho and his friends.
Here are some of the quotes that I found memorable:
"All is well"
"Engineers are a clever bunch, but they haven't made a machine to measure mental pressure. If they had, all would know this isn't suicide... It's MURDER." - Rancho to Virus during Joy Lobo's funeral.
"No sir, I wasn't teaching you Engineering, you're an expert at that. I'm teaching you how to teach." "I'm sure that one day you'll learn, because unlike you, I never abandon my weak students." - Rancho to Virus when he asked Rancho to demonstrate on how he will teach.
"We'll study with all our heart, but not just for grades. To quote a Wise One - Study to be accomplished, not affluent. Follow Excellence and Success will chase you pants down." - Rancho to Raju and Farhan
"With fear of tomorrow, how'll you live today?... Strange buddies! One lives in fear and the other in pretense." - Rancho to Raju and Farhan.
"Rancho has a simple belief - Make your passion your profession then work will become play." - Farhan to his father when he was telling them about being a photographer.
The film was hilarious, entertaining and filled with values. The film has many lessons in it. One is that, you should follow your passion, since if you try to do something that you don't really love, you won't excel in it. Another is that, in learning you should understand and not memorize. The film tackles the common dilemma of college students, specially those who are engineering. Another thing that you can learn from the movie is that, success chases after excellence. What I love about this movie is that, I can relate, since I am an engineering student myself. I can relate to the pressure and the hardships that you face in pursuing this profession. But, if you really set your heart into it, if it really is your passion, you will succeed. This movie served as an inspiration for me.
Zoobi Doobi - Rancho and Pia
This is one of those movies that doesn't have one of those Hollywood cliche's and a movie which actually has an essence to it. If you haven't watched this movie yet, I highly recommend watching this.
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